Tributes have been paid to the former Bishop of Clifton, the Rt Rev Mervyn Alexander, who died on Saturday 14 August 2010 at St Angela's Home in Clifton, Bristol.
Tributes have been paid to the former Bishop of Clifton, the Rt Rev Mervyn Alexander, who died on Saturday 14 August 2010 at St Angela's Home in Clifton, Bristol.
A Bible, which was found the trenches during World War I, will bring together the families of the man who owned it and the man who found it to commemorate the two soldiers in a service of remembrance this October.
Up to 30,000 pilgrims, including the sick and elderly, had to be evacuated from Lourdes on Sunday following a bomb scare which later turned out to be a hoax.
This year’s World Cup victors dedicated their trophy to Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Marian basilica in Mexico City in fulfillment of a promise made by the president of the Spanish Royal Federation of Soccer ahead of the tournament.

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